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Necessity hath no law. - Oliver Cromwell

Justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli

Order is Heaven's first law. - Alexander Pope

Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

I don't want tea, I want justice! - Ally Carter

A lawsuit helps keep lawyers clothed. - Unknown

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. - Groucho Marx

Justice is incidental to law and order. - J Edgar Hoover

The good of the people is the chief law. - Cicero

Law is order, and good law is good order. - Aristotle

If you want peace, you must work for justice. - Pope Paul VI

Keep skunks, bankers and lawyers at a distance. - Unknown

Judge, could I, waddya call, encroach the bench? - Archie Bunker

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still. - Roscoe Pound

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire

Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. - Groucho Marx

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. - Kim Campbell

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

I've never been in love. I've always been a lawyer. - Unknown

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless it is paid for. - Unknown

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. - Albert Einstein

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself. - Thomas More

Do not judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. - Native American Proverb

Lawsuit: a machine you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. - Ambrose Bierce

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. - Mark Twain

The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. - Wendell Phillips

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother. - WC Fields

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. - Aristotle

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. - Erich Fromm

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. - Ambrose Bierce

You cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. - Joseph H Choate

Humour is based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joe-k about a father-in-law? - Dick Clark

Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand

Divorce = Rebirth: forget the past, replan your life, improve your appearance & rejuvenate! - Rossana Condoleo

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown. - Victor Hugo

Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein. - Guindon

I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire one to tell me how to do what I want to do. - J P Morgan

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. - Henny Youngman

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. - Arthur Schopenhauer

What's the first excellence in a lawyer? Tautology. What's the second? Tautology. What's the third? Tautology. - Richard Steele

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. - Calvin Coolidge

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F Kennedy

We discern across the centuries a commanding and versatile intelligence, wielding with equal force the sword of war and of justice. - Winston Churchill

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. - Cecil B. DeMille